This year’s Associated Students, Inc. (ASI) elections are the first to feature presidential campaign spending limits. The $2,000 spending limit was passed by the ASI Board of Directors Jan. 11 as part of the ASI Election Code. This spending limit only applies to presidential candidates; there is no cap for ASI Board of Directors candidates. […]
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Tuition and fees increased by 716% in 50 years
The days of tuition-free education at Cal Poly are long gone. According to the first course catalog published by the then California Polytechnic School in 1903, the school charged students $35 for books, supplies and a laboratory fee, or $921.13 adjusted for inflation. The first fee outside of books, supplies, laboratory, room and board and […]
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Tenure density continues to decrease as state funding drops
Many Cal Poly professors are leaders in their fields. They are developing technology used by Boeing, finding planets that defy gravitational laws and creating open government databases to bring state government back to the people. They carry out these projects with students, offering them chances to put their education to use; they guide senior projects […]
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Cal Poly’s tenured track faculty at all time low
Cal Poly’s tenured density is the lowest it has been in the past 10 years.
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HIV and other STIs on the rise in SLO
A steady increase in cases of other STIs in San Luis Obispo County could point to increased vulnerability to HIV
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Income diversity at Cal Poly among lowest in California
Cal Poly received comparatively poor scores in economic diversity, low income accessibility and upward mobility.
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Water fills reservoirs, students fill airports
Cal Poly began the Winter 2017 quarter on Jan. 9, only two days after the beginning of a Pineapple Express — a non-technical term for a corridor of atmospheric moisture that causes heavy precipitation on the West Coast. As last week’s storm made landfall, the impact was intense. On one hand, the storm provided some […]
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Fall quarter crime report: Alcohol and drug use reason for most reports and arrests
Thirty-four percent of the quarter’s 50 total arrests were due to minors in possession of alcohol.